Caliphate

Chapter VII

The election of 2016 was a foregone conclusion months before the polls opened, though both of the traditional parties, and the mainstream media, denied it until the last. Though both Democrats and Republicans attempted to mount the populist bandwagon, the people weren't listening anymore. Buckman carried every state, even-since Boston and its hard core of liberal voters had been destroyed-Massachusetts, and had unprecedented majorities in both houses of Congress.

Despite predictions, the missiles did not fly within an hour of Buckman's inauguration. He explained why: "We must put our own house in order first. We must… "